Brave New World

It seems today that to smack a child is illegal. It seems to me also useless nowadays to shout at a child. I told my 2 year old off yesterday and she shouted back at me to " Stop shouting at me Daddy ! " She is only two, but she already sees herself as an equal. That was not so in my childhood, no, not at all. I didn't shout in defiance at my parents when I was two, if I did I was told off and went to bed, period. In her first two years somewhere and somehow she has learnt to intelligently defy and challenge me. This isn't a silly fit or wobbly she throws, its a definite mind set she has learnt, an arrogance I didn't think id see for several years yet.